This past Sunday, I was half way through a fourteen mile training run when I started to feel a pulling in both knees. Damn, I thought, this is bad. I rarely stop during training runs but I knew that this could be bad... I hated doing it but at the top of a small hill I stopped. It was 16 degrees and I quickly felt the cold rush in (both physically and mentally), slowly walking I could see the film crew unsure what to do. As I approached a production car, Michele approached and told me to get in the car. In a car window, I saw my reflection - ice hung onto my goatee - I just looked beaten and tired. I hated the way I looked and felt.
It has been almost a week since this occurred. I haven't run once. Twice a day, I wrap my knees with ice and take 400mgs of Motrin. Right now, the knees feel OK but I will not know until my next run this Tuesday.
Lessons learned - Listen to my body... it is telling me everything that I need to know. I hindsight I had been over training and not allowing anytime for recovery. Every run for me was a sub eight minute mile if not faster. So, over the past five weeks I have been tearing myself apart and not allowing my body to rebuild. In marathon terms - I came out of the gate way too fast.
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2005 Lake Placid Marathon : 3:51:28
2005 Marine Corps Marathon : 3:33:41
2006 Icicle Ten Mile Run : 1:16:16
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